Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 7408
Problem with ispell language packages
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:53 EDT
Helo every body I try to install different ispell language packages (ispell-french, ispell-german, ispell-spanish and ispell-italian). There was no errror reported during the install but, I do not found any new dictionnaries in /usr/lib/ispell. I check in the rpm database and get : > rpm -qs ispell-french normal /usr/doc/ispell-french-3.1.20 normal /usr/doc/ispell-french-3.1.20/COPYING normal /usr/doc/ispell-french-3.1.20/ChangeLog normal /usr/doc/ispell-french-3.1.20/LISEZMOI normal /usr/doc/ispell-french-3.1.20/MANIFEST not installed /usr/lib/ispell/francais.aff not installed /usr/lib/ispell/francais.hash Does any one have any idea to solve this trouble ? Bye Laurent
These files are tagged by language, and rpm will only install such files if the language in use on the system matches. You can install all the files with LINGUAS=all rpm -Uvh ispell-<language>*rpm --force The tags were causing more confusion than they were worth in the language-specific ispell dictionary packages and so have been removed from those packages for our next release.
It may be obvious from the many complaints that the language selection is somewhat counter-intuitive :-) When I learnt the cause of the trouble, I was surprised in three ways: (1) that RedHat has found yet another smart/practical thing to put into RPM (2) that it was applied to packages whose names already imply a lang choice (3) that is was *not* applied to stuff with locale entries I currently have 111 languages and flavours of them installed. (And I only speak 3 and understand up to 5!)